TUC and rail unions launch campaign to fight rail and job...
THE TUC, railway unions and transport campaigners have launched a campaign to fight job cuts, service reductions, ticket office closures and fare hikes in...
‘REGENERATION’ PROPOSALS MEAN EVICTION – say Grahame Park tenants
Tenants and leaseholders on the Grahame Park housing estate in Colindale, north-west London, are angry over ‘regeneration’ proposals which leave many facing eviction. ‘Choices for...
Collective punishment after truck attack
A PALESTINIAN was shot dead after driving a truck into a group of uniformed Israeli soldiers, killing four soldiers and injuring at least 13...
Three Numsa Shop Stewards Killed In Targeted Shooting
THREE NUMSA shop steward leaders were gunned down late on Wednesday 6 August 2014 in the KwaZulu-Natal province. A National Union of Metalworkers of South...
Tories Declare Class War – By Permission Of The Liberal Democrats
The draft coalition agreement reached by the Tories and the Liberal Democrats published on Wednesday makes clear their number one priority is to make...
Seven US Soldiers Killed Near Haditha
Seven US marines have been killed in western Iraq, the US military said yesterday. The soldiers were killed on Monday near Haditha, a town...
Iran Condemns Usa For Vetoing An Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza!
IRAN’S foreign minister has censured Washington for vetoing, for the third time, a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the besieged...
‘Unceasing Fatalities’ In Bangladesh Shipbreaking Industry
‘UNCEASING fatalities’ continue in the Bangladesh shipbreaking industry, as two more workers were killed and thirteen injured in yet another incident at the Ziri...
JUSTICE FOR NOAH! Noah’s family call for investigation into his ‘disappearance’
By Fra Hughes in West Belfast LAST Thursday, January 7, 2020, Fiona Donohoe led a cavalcade of hundreds of cars with perhaps thousands of people...
‘US WILL DRIVE LEBANON TO SEDITION’ – warns Hezbollah leader
Lebanese national resistance movement Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah has warned that the United States will drive Lebanon towards sedition if Lebanon does not conform...
Explosion Injures 61 Shanghai Workers!
A WEEKEND explosion at a Shanghai factory run by Apple supplier Pegatron injured 61 workers, 23 of whom were hospitalised according to the Taiwan-based...
Factory Blast Probe Condemns ‘Dangerous And Dysfunctional’ Safety Culture
An independent report into the ICL Glasgow plastics factory fire disaster in which nine workers died in May 2004 has exposed a health and...
COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA
MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...
Defend Trent Park Campus–Defend Chase Farm say Middlesex University students
STUDENTS from Middlesex University declared yesterday that the only way to defend their threatened Trent Park Campus and their neighbouring local hospital, Chase Farm,...
95,000 children detained on West Bank since 1967 – says Military...
SOME 95,000 Palestinian children have been detained in the West Bank since it was occupied by Israel in 1967, most of whom were exposed...
FBU rally condemns 13 years of austerity and launches ‘Firefighters Manifesto’
OVER seven hundred firefighters and control staff assembled in Westminster on Wednesday to launch a new ‘Firefighters’ Manifesto’. As the country recovers from flooding, and...
NHS staff from overseas paying extortionate visa fees
PUBLIC sector union Unison says the UK immigration system has never been smooth to navigate. The Home Office is infamous for its extortionate fees...
NUT delegates hear Serwotka condemn ‘worst ever government’
NATIONAL Union of Teachers leader Christine Blower has reacted to the remarks of Education Secretary Ed Balls, who addressed the NUT’s conference in...
‘Everyone Should Strike To Support This Action – Not Just The...
NHS! NHS! NHS! chanted 20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters as they marched in central London on Saturday. ‘The BMA is balloting...
‘Virus Sweeping Through School System With Alarming Results!’
THE Coronavirus Infection Survey published by the Office for National Statistics has revealed the extent that the virus swept through the school system and...
‘I was threatened with arrest while searching for family members’ bereaved...
‘I WAS threatened with arrest while searching for family members,’ said bereaved Grenfell relative Nabil Choucair, speaking at Monday’s session of the Grenfell Tower...
Greek Phone-Tapping Storm
A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...
‘The only way to undo apartheid is to pay workers a...
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has said that it is 100% in solidarity with its affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers...
RELEASE HUBER BALLESTEROS! – and all Colombian political prisoners
JUST as preparations were being made for the launch of a campaign to call for the release of Huber Ballesteros and the other several...
‘US RETREATING FROM ATTACKING IRAN’ – claims Iranian newspaper
The US is retreating from an attack on Iran, says an article in Iran’s newspaper Jaam-e Jam, published last Tuesday. It reports: ‘The Israeli Haretz...
AICCTU unions condemn Modi government lies!
THE MODI government’s ‘lies and myth-making’ at the National Labour Conference have been denounced by the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU). The...
Striking Catering Workers Arrested Across USA!
STRIKING catering workers employed by LSG Sky Chefs and Gate Gourmet were arrested at airports across the United States on November 26 as they...
Hanan Ashrawi warns against separating Gaza from rest of the occupied...
HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), warned on Wednesday against attempts to impose an economic or humanitarian...
‘Our people haven’t struggled to change the size of our chains!...
PALESTINE’S Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Riyad al-Maliki, described on Friday the US deal of the century as a ‘consecration’ of the century-long...
Islamic Jihad slams hostile US statements
THE statements by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visits to Tel Aviv and Ramallah are ‘aggressive and anti-Palestinian’, the Palestinian resistance...
Vale Inco strikers into the seventh month of action
Vale Inco could have some explaining to do to shareholders about the quality and quantity of nickel it is producing while its 3,000 production...
‘Drone Attacks Are International Law Crimes’
An Islamabad-based human rights charity called on Wednesday on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops...
University strikers determined to win
DURING the nationwide university staff and lecturers strike this week, strikers were determined to stop the pension cuts, staff sackings, overbearing workloads and pay...
‘Labour brokers are bloodsuckers’ – Irvin Jim at SRWP election rally
THE SOCIALIST Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) of South Africa was founded in March this year as a communist, Marxist-Leninist party, after a pre-launch convention...
The coup d’etat in Bolivia! – Statement by the Bartolina Sisa...
‘FOR many years the extreme right in Bolivia, based in the oil and gas rich east of the country and very much controlled by...
Benefit cuts are criminalising the old and the low paid
‘FAMILIES are being forced to choose between staying on the right side of the law or feeding themselves,’ warned Labour’s Shadow communities secretary Hilary...
Russia launches a new 10-year space programme
The Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) is about to start its Kliper launch vehicle project, the head of the agency told a Moscow press conference...
‘MARCH IN YOUR MILLIONS’ – Defiant Gadaffi urges masses
IN a live speech to the Libyan people over Libyan state Al-Jamahiriyah TV last Tuesday the, Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gadaffi said that...
Reconstruction of Gaza will cost $4bn
THE Palestinian National Authority has announced the details of its ‘national recovery plan’ for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which it has...
Gettelfinger Has No Answer To ‘The Race To The Bottom’
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger spoke at the Michigan State University School of Labour and Industrial Relations in East Lansing, Michigan on April 10th...
Sheffield lecturers vote for strike action!
SHEFFIELD College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in defence of jobs and quality of education. 86% of University College Union (UCU)...
Asylum seekers housed in cramped and filthy conditions!
ASYLUM seekers are housed in cramped and filthy conditions at two military barracks, with a number of residents feeling suicidal, inspectors have said. Key findings...
21 million trapped in forced labour – including six million children...
IN HER foreword to the US Department of Labor’s findings on the worst forms of child labour in 2011, Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of...
Breast implants: private sector wrecks women’s bodies – NHS to pay...
FORTY thousand women are affected by the industrial-grade silicone breast implant scandal in Britain alone, and now recriminations are flying between the government, the...
Israelis Destroy Al-Araqib Village
In the early hours of Tuesday morning Israeli Police demolished a whole Bedouin village in the Negev desert. Approximately 1,500 Israeli forces were involved including...